"My intellectual development was shaped by this pivotal experience," said Professor Hine.

A pivotal experience for him came the previous year when he visited Achill island, off the coast of Mayo.

That was, you can understand, a pivotal experience, even though I spent the next few days trying to convince myself that I hadn't seen it.

There are, to be sure, pivotal generational experiences.

But a pivotal experience made her stop spending hours fussing over the food.

This proved to be a pivotal experience that would have a defining influence on his later career.

We were fortunate enough to participate in one of Dobyns's poetry courses; it was a pivotal experience in our academic life.

But it was a pivotal experience where intellect and good design came together with a soft sell.

Both were politically pivotal experiences about which he would eventually write in his book Finding the Trapdoor.

It was a pivotal experience for him.